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SECT. 4. This act shall not be binding upon said district CHAP. 228 until accepted by a majority vote in legal district meeting Act not binding, called for that purpose.

unless accepted in legal meeting

repealed.

SECT. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the Inconsistent acts provisions of this act are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to said district number fourteen in the town of China. SECT. 6. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved February 17, 1883.

Chapter 228.

An Act concerning Samuel Byron Chadbourn, a deaf mute.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

Chadbourn to receive instruction at expense of

SECT. 1. The governor with the approval of the council Samuel Byron is hereby authorized to send Samuel Byron Chadbourn, a deaf mute, to the American asylum at Hartford, or to the the state. Portland school for the deaf at Portland, or to such other school or place of instruction as they may consider suitable, to receive instruction at the expense of the state.

vided for.

SECT. 2. The governor is hereby authorized to draw his expense prowarrant for such sums as shall be found necessary for the instruction and support of said Samuel Byron Chadbourn while at school and for traveling expenses.

SECT. 3. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 17, 1883.

Chapter 229.

An Act to incorporate the Passadumkeag Log Driving Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. John Morrison, George P. Gilman, Joseph W. Corporators. Porter, Lester Dwinel, Henry M. Prentiss, Charles Wood

man, Silas E. Woodman, Gardner B. Page, Isaiah Morris, Jonathan Darling, Albert C. Page and George M. Page, are

hereby created a corporation by the name of the Passadum- Corporate name. keag Log Driving Company.

CHAP. 229

Company to drive

owners.

SECT. 2. The said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company logs at expense of may, in the log driving season, and at the cost and expense of the owners thereof, drive all logs and timber to the Passadumkeag boom, intended to be driven then, that may seasonably be in the Passaduikeag river, between Grand Falls and the dam at the foot of Nickataous lake.

Payment to be made when logs reach boom.

SECT. 3. It shall be the duty of the owner of each mark of logs and timber driven by said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company to pay, as soon as the logs and timber arrive at the Passadumkeag boom, to the said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company, the cost and expense of driving the same, and the Lien for expense. said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company shall have a lien, which shall have precedence over all other liens, upon all logs and timber for the cost and expense of driving the same, but the logs and timber of each particular mark shall only be holden to pay the cost and expense of driving such mark. Assessments, how The assessment by the said company of the cost and expense

made and col

lected.

Owners to file scale and marks with clerk.

of driving each mark of logs and timber shall be made to such mark, and if the cost and expense of driving is not paid said company within twenty days after the assessment is made, and within twenty days after the logs and timber have arrived at the said boom, the said company may sell, at public auction, in Bangor, so many of said logs and timber as may be necessary to pay the cost and expense of driving such logs and timber, with incidental charges, after giving ten days' public notice of the time and place of sale, in a newspaper printed in Bangor. The assessment of the cost and expense of driving all logs and timber shall be according to the scale usually denominated woods scale, except as hereinafter provided.

SECT. 4. Every owner of logs and timber which is intended to be driven to said Passadumkeag boom by said log driving company, shall, on or before the first day of the succeeding month of May after such logs and timber may have been cut and hauled, file with the clerk of said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company, in writing, the woods scale of such logs and timber, and if any such owner shall neglect to file such woods scale as aforesaid, together with the mark or marks of such logs and timber, the directors of said company may, upon such knowledge and information as they may deem proper, estimate and determine the quantity of such

Directors may

logs and timber, and assess the cost of driving the same CHAP. 229 accordingly. If, in the opinion of the directors of said com- assess marks pany, the woods scale of any particular mark or marks of by boom scale. logs and timber is not a true and correct scale, the directors of said company may assess such mark or marks of logs and timber for the cost and expense of driving the same, according to the scale usually denominated the boom scale, and such assessment, according to the boom scale, may be made, notwithstanding the assessment in the first instance was made according to the woods scale.

membership.

SECT. 5. Any person owning timber land, or any person Qualification for engaged in lumbering above said Grand Falls, may, on application to said company, be admitted a member thereof, to vote at any meeting of the said company for the choice of directors and all other officers of the company, and any owner of timber land above said Grand Falls, or any lumberman above said falls, ceasing to be such owner or lumberman, shall cease to be a member of said company. Every member of said company owning timber land above said falls Basis of represhall be entitled to one vote, and each lumberman, a member of said company shall be entitled to one vote for every twohorse team or its equivalent, engaged or employed by him in hauling logs and timber above said falls.

sentation.

Company may

furnish men and

supplies to ownhave lien on logs.

ers of logs and

SECT. 6. The said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company may, at their option, furnish to any owner, at his request, men, material and supplies to aid such owner to drive his logs and timber from the landing, so called, to the limits of said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company, and the said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company shall have a lien as aforesaid upon all such logs and timber for such supplies, material and men, and if the same is not paid within twenty days after such logs and timber arrive at said boom, the said Passadumkeag Log Driving Company may sell so many of Enforcement. said logs and timber as may be necessary to pay for said. men, material and supplies, first giving ten days' notice of the time and place of sale in some newspaper printed in Bangor.

SECT. 7. This act shall take effect when approved.

Approved February 17, 1883.

CHAP. 230

Corporators.

Corporate name. Powers and liabilities.

Capital stock.

Purposes and privileges.

Chapter 230.

An Act to incorporate the Maine Electric Light and Power Company. Whereas, the object of the corporation to be created by this act cannot be otherwise attained, therefore :

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECT. 1. D. W. Clark, A. A. Strout, George S. Hunt, Theodore C. Woodbury, William G. Davis, H. T. Plummer, Nathan Cleaves, H. N. Jose, H. M. Payson, F. J. Rollins, George P. Wescott, David Moulton, John Sparrow, S. E. Spring, George F. Holmes, C. P. Mattocks, W. F. Milliken, J. P. Gilman, R. S. Maxcy, J. E. Blabon, John E. DeWitt, J. W. Deering, T. C. Hersey, C. B. Gardner, H. J. Libby, W. E. Gould, J. S. Winslow, C. F. Libby, J. P. Baxter and E. P. Payson, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Maine Electric Light and Power Company, and by that name shall have and enjoy all rights, powers and privileges necessary to effect the objects of their association, and shall be entitled to all the rights and subject to all the duties and liabilities now or hereafter provided by the laws of this state as to corporations, so far as applicable, and subject to the provisions of this act.

SECT. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be not less than five hundred thousand dollars, nor more than one million dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

SECT. 3. Said company is authorized and empowered for the purpose of carrying on the business of lighting, by electricity, cities, towns, villages, public streets, parks, buildings and places, private houses, manufactories, places and buildings, places of business, worship and amusement, within this state; and the business of furnishing motive power, by electricity, within said places and limits; and the business of manufacturing and providing machinery, apparatus and appurtenances for the supply of said light and said power, to acquire, hold and alienate real and personal estate to the amount of one million dollars; to build and operate manufactories and works for the providing and supply of electricity; to construct, lay, maintain and operate lines of wire or other material for the transmission of electricity, submarine,

under ground, upon, under and along and over any and all CHAP. 230 streets, ways and public places in such manner as not to endanger the appropriate public use thereof, railroads, bridges, canals and lands and buildings of any individuals, society or corporation, with all necessary posts, pipes, supports and appurtenances, and terminating at such points as may be expedient; and to confer this power upon licensees of said May confer power company who shall be deemed agents of said company for said purposes, but said company shall not be liable for the torts or negligence of such licensees, nor upon contracts made by them except as mutually agreed by said company and its licensees.

upon licensees.

For authority to consent of

erect wires, etc.,

municipal officers necessary. same,

SECT. 4. For the erecting said wires above ground, and for the laying the same, or pipes therefor submarine or under ground, and for taking up, replacing and repairing the said company or its licensees in any city or town shall first obtain the consent of the municipal officers thereof, and perform said acts as directed by them; and said company or its licensees in any city or town shall repay to any city or town any sum of money which such city or town may have been compelled to pay on any judgment for any damage occasioned by the aforesaid doings of said company or its licensees through defect or want of repair in the streets thereof.

SECT. 5. Said company or its licensees in any city or town shall, at their own expense, without unnecessary delay, remove any obstructions in any street, made for erecting or laying the lines for such purposes, and cause earth or pavements disturbed to be properly replaced. They shall not be allowed to obstruct or impair the use of any public or private drain, pipe or sewer, but may cross, or, when necessary, change the direction of any private pipe, drain or sewer in such manner as not to obstruct or impair the use thereof, being responsible to the owner or other person for any injury occasioned thereby, in an action on the case.

SECT. 6. Damages for any land taken for the purposes of erecting or laying said lines, if the parties cannot agree, shall be estimated, secured and paid as in the case of lands taken for railroads.

how called.

SECT. 7. The first meeting of said company may be called First meeting, by either corporator giving five days' written notice, by mail, to his associates, stating the time and place thereof, or by